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A farmer standing among his your grapevines with his barns behind him. It is identified as Kirby Ranch on the back.

Teams of wagons full of their harvest wait in line to load into train cars to take to market.

A group of men and their horses likely the ranch hands and owner probably sitting in buggy.

Wheat Harvesting team. They are using a Header, it would cut off the head of the grain as it went along it would travel up the chute and into a wagon.

The Plastering Crew that worked on the Barton Opera House in Fresno 1890. Contractor/Mason, M.B. Washburn was first standing on the left his partner Ed. C Bacon was 6th from the left sitting. The Barton Opera House and Armory Hall sat majestically…

I.N. Parlier (center) and wife to his left with their children and inlaws (18 in all) with hands joined to show the bough spread of his Smyrna Fig Tree. It was planted in 1888. The dimensions of the tree at this time (1909) were: Girth at ground,…

Group of people in front of an unknown building in Raisin City. People are: front row (L-R) Miss Fike, Laton; Miss Holsinger, Laton; Miss Whitmore, Raisin City; unknown, Miss Flickinger, Raisin City; Miss Brandt, Raisin City; Mr. Kunc, Raisin City.…

Unknown man by his Hupmobile car in Eisen's Date Garden. November 24, 1910. F.T. Eisen's property and vineyard was bounded by Clovis, Belmont, Fowler Avenues and Kings Canyon Road. He was the first to cultivate wine and raisin grapes in the Valley.

Unknown man, standing in is Hupmobile picking dates off a tree in the Eisen Date Garden.

This is a picture of the Fresno Vineyard's manager's residence on 400 acres of wine vineyard and orchard. Built in 1881.